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A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Some scientists think they discovered a new dwarf planet at the edge of the solar system, so far away that it takes around 25 ...

As a result of the International Astronomical Union’s 2006 demotion of Pluto from planet to dwarf planet, our solar system ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

Scientists have identified an object about 435 miles (700 km) wide inhabiting the frigid outer reaches of our solar system that might qualify as a dwarf planet, spotting it as it travels on a highly ...

The TNO, which are described as minor planets that orbit the sun at a greater distance than Neptune, were found on the edge ...

Star TOI-6894 is just like many in our galaxy, a small red dwarf, and only ~20% of the mass of our sun. Like many small stars ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Astronomers have found that planet mass is about 17% of the mass of Jupiter, or about 53 times the mass of the Earth. The ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive gas giant, TOI-6894b, orbiting the red dwarf star TOI-6894, a pairing that defies ...